Site Reliability Engineer
Analytic Partners · Denver, CO · 5 days ago
HybridEngineeringFull-time
About the role
Analytic Partners is a global leader in commercial measurement and optimization, turning data into expertise for the world’s largest brands. This role is part of a dynamic team that helps leaders make better decisions, faster - unlocking business growth and creating powerful customer connections.
Responsibilities
- Own the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) as a product, treating engineering teams as customers and optimizing for reliability, usability, and delivery velocity
- Define and execute a platform roadmap aligned with business priorities, developer needs, and long-term scalability
- Build and evolve paved roads for application delivery, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure templates, service scaffolding, and standardized deployment patterns
- Create and maintain reusable platform abstractions across AWS and Azure that standardize security, reliability, networking, and observability
- Reduce developer cognitive load by abstracting unnecessary complexity while enforcing clear guardrails for security, cost, and compliance
- Partner closely with application, product, and security teams to embed reliability, scalability, and security by design
- Define, measure, and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for shared platform services
- Drive the reduction of operational toil through automation, standardization, and platform-first solutions
- Evaluate incoming platform requests and translate them into scalable, productized capabilities
- Mentor engineers and drive platform adoption through documentation, enablement, and technical evangelism
- Operate effectively in ambiguous problem spaces, making sound architectural and product decisions with limited guidance
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 4+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering roles
- Strong expertise in Linux and Windows operating systems
- Advanced automation and scripting skills using Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell
- Deep, hands-on experience designing and operating AWS and Azure platforms at scale
- Strong experience building and operating CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitHub Actions or equivalent)
- In-depth experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, or similar)
- Production experience with containerized and orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes
- In-depth experience with the HashiCorp ecosystem (Nomad, Consul, Vault)
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and reliability patterns
- In-depth experience with observability platforms (e.g., Splunk, Sumo Logic, or similar)
- Familiarity with security and compliance practices, including vulnerability scanning and enterprise security tooling
- Strong understanding of the software delivery lifecycle, release engineering, and platform lifecycle management
- Experience working in Agile / DevOps environments with a strong product mindset
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, set standards, and drive adoption across teams
- Excellent communication skills, able to translate platform capabilities into clear developer value
- Strong problem-solving skills with a bias toward durable, scalable solutions over short-term fixes
- A mindset of continuous improvement, curiosity, and learning
- Comfortable supporting a global, follow-the-sun operation when needed
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with AWS and Azure
- Experience with CI/CD platforms and Infrastructure as Code
- Understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
- Experience with observability tools and security practices
- Experience with HashiCorp tools
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with DevOps and Agile methodologies
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools
- Experience with security and compliance practices
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment
- Experience with automated testing and deployment
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management
- Experience with monitoring and alerting
- Experience with incident response and problem solving
- Experience with capacity planning and demand forecasting
- Experience with performance tuning and optimization
- Experience with system-to-system integration and messaging patterns
- Experience with platform standards for logging, monitoring, alerting, tracing, and incident response
- Experience with defining and managing Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets
- Experience with mentoring and driving platform adoption
- Experience with platform-level incident response workflows
- Experience with zero-downtime upgrades, migrations, and releases
- Experience with platform-level capacity planning and demand forecasting
- Experience with platform-level performance tuning
- Experience with platform-level automation and standardization
- Experience with platform-level observability and security
- Experience with platform-level documentation and enablement
- Experience with platform-level continuous improvement and learning
- Experience with platform-level global operations and support